Writin' on empty
Subtitle: parents reveal the upside, downside, and everything in between when children leave the nest
By: edited by Joan Cehn, Risa Nye, and Julie Renalds
Publisher: No Flak Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780615208855
Subjects: Empty nesters; Parent and child
Other titles: Writing on empty
Table of contents: title: Naked parents in the pool  -- Linda Lee Peterson; title: The son replacement dog  -- Pam Muramatsu; title: College bound times two  -- Martha Loeffler; title: Alone again, naturally  -- Jeanne Aufmuth; title: Something to leave behind  -- Joanne Levy-Prewitt; title: Refeathering  -- Elizabeth Fishel; title: Ready or not  -- Marilyn O'Malley; title: Blue sky  -- Roque Gutierrez; title: Missing Matthew  -- Laura Shumaker; title: Out in the world (and barely a word)  -- John Leland; title: The big uneasy  -- Phil Weingrow; title: Rite of passage day  -- Sharon Rockey; title: The properties of paradise  -- Ransom Stephens; title: Shaking off empty  -- Wendy Cohen; title: The good-bye girl  -- Ronnie Caplane; title: One by one  -- Risa Nye; title: Heavy-hearted to hopeful: the healing nature of time  -- Joan Chen; title: Laura's room  -- Linda Weltner; title: One shot  -- Julie Renalds; title: Leaving home for college  -- Penny Warner; title: Time makes you bolder/children get older  -- Kate Wheatman; title: Indispensible to inconsequential  -- Joan Passman; title: Off to college and on to the roller coaster  -- Eve Young Visconti; title: When a son heads off to college, the parents too begin a journey  -- C.W. Nevius; title: The other side of the song  -- Bill Coy; title: A bittersweet parting, an empty nest  -- Al Martinez; title: Her independent streak runs at the speed of life -- Al Martinez.